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Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday ordered commune police forces to “explain and educate” citizens on the “mistakes” of the now-dissolved opposition party, and to bolster the presence of authorities in local communities by adopting local security guard units.
At a convention of local police officials yesterday on Diamond Island, the minister lauded the actions of local security guards in 2013 and 2014, when irregular forces repeatedly and brutally beat journalists and non-violent activists at opposition, land rights and environmental rallies, and at times sued protesters to send them to...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday dismissed the European Union’s decision to pull support from the National Election Committee, saying that “liberal, multiparty democracy will not become the hostage of anyone”.
The EU’s decision came in response to the government’s crackdown on the Kingdom’s largest opposition party – the Cambodia National Rescue Party – which was summarily dissolved last month, a development that the EU said rendered credible elections impossible.
But in a speech to garment workers in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday, Hun Sen said the government had enough money...

Dr Markus Karbaum
The dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) is the most serious setback of Cambodian democracy since the violent incidents of 1997. The pure existence of a relevant opposition is one of the main...